Innovative Speaking

Opening definitions • Let’s think about nature in new ways.

45-75 minutes

Previously adapted to: Grades 1-3 students; Grade 4-6 students.

Words are tools. A cat is a cat just like a tree is one big and dangling collection of branches hung with leaves or pines. What if ‘home’ was not just the borders around our houses and apartments? Through narrative story telling and introductory marine biology, Henry opens up our understanding of ‘home’ and allows us to think broadly about beaches, forests, deserts, and even our crawlspaces which may be home to a couple racoons.

Learning Outcomes:

• Empathy: How to reimagine and connect with marine and terrestrial life in nature.

• Responsibility and Stewardship: Through tools of narrative structure and STEAM topics, we discover personalized definitions of responsibility, reciprocity, and stewardship.

• Social-Emotional Development: Access personalized understandings with our emotional connections to the natural world.

• Increased Confidence: Unlock deepened perspectives on the natural world to build social-emotional learning and a sense of curiosity.

• Fresh Perspectives in the sciences: Connect understandings of ecosystems, marine biology, and oceanography to a newfound emotional intelligence.

• Critical thinking and Language Skills: How to challenge a black-and-white approach to defining and understanding language.

Empower students with passion-led choices

45-75 minutes

Previously adapted to: Grades 9-12 students.

We are in a unique point in history. The jobs we choose can expand beyond a narrow sense of profit, loss, and non-profit models. Many for-profit companies have adopted carbon-negative and naturalist approaches to future building prospects, operational strategies, and product-sourcing. With extensive experience in the field, Henry energizes students by illuminating the climate-forward, naturalist-thinking career landscape rapidly emerging across the globe.

Learning Outcomes:

• Moves students beyond traditional schools of thought when thinking about careers.

• Confidence building: Empowers a sense of hope and direction amid current anxieties around the climate and global economy.

• The ‘braiding’ model: Introducing students to braiding passion, aptitude, and mission into career decisions.

• Solidifies an understanding of the emergent industries and departments dedicated to climate-forward goals.

• Empowerment: How to think hopefully about the future and transform hope into action.

• Responsibility: How to think about working for yourself and others.

• How to think and contribute to an actionable, optimistic future.

Meticulously personalized

45-75 minutes.

Bring your institution’s goals onto the drawing board to energize your students and community. Place-based learning and STEAM-focused topics have the power to bolster the direct missions and goals of small communities. Through meticulous research and planning, Henry delivers mission-aligned talks with institutions for the goal of burgeoning a social-emotional connections to the nature, restoration projects, ambitions, and critters around an institution’s direct landscape.